The Family Foraging Kitchen C.I.C.

Join our Apiarist in this fantastic introduction to bee keeping course. Learn how to get started with keeping bees and about their care, get up close and personal with his hives and see if bee keeping is right for you! At Horsepool Apiary, between Sheviock and Crafthole in SE Cornwall.

Coppicing is a traditional woodland management technique that provides a diversity of woodland habitats that benefits a rich diversity of wildlife Aspects covered on the course will include habitats and conservation, health and safety, practical coppicing, coppice products and lots more. Come and experience a practical day working in the woods and learn all about the ancient art of coppicing in a peaceful setting in SE Cornwall. Enjoy the satisfaction of improving a native woodland and enhancing the wildlife potential in the woods. Relax at lunchtime with a light lunch...

Enjoy a practical day in a stunning Cornish Apiary, learning the traditional method of dry Stone walling using a variety of hand tools. At a relaxed pace, this ancient craft of building stone walls by hand, piece by piece and without the aid of cement or mortar, has been known to improve mental health and relive anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress. You’ll leave with a new skill for life and a deep sense of satisfaction. Please bring your own steel toe capped footwear and dress appropriately for the weather conditions....

Walking at a gentle pace upon a variety of easy terrains, we’ll explore the beautiful Rame Peninsula in SE Cornwall, learning the wild plants and seaweeds that can be used for food and medicines. Each walk includes a cookery class or medicines workshop. If you’ve children or grandchildren, under the age of sixteen, bring them alongfor free and share a knowledge and adventure. See the webpage or date and location specifics.

Walking at a gentle pace upon a variety of easy terrain, we’ll explore the beautiful Wacker Quay in SE Cornwall, learning the wild plants growing along the esturay, hedgerow and woodland of spring that can be used for food and medicines. This walk includes a cookery and medicines workshop.

Foraging & Feasting on The Minnadhu, Cornwall exploring the coastal Hedges, Edges & Woodland! This is a a 3 hour guided walk with our expert forager, Vix Hill-Ryder. Learn the edible wonders of April from this stuning location upon the Mt Edgcumbe Estate in SE Cornwall. A cookery demonstration and tasting also included, which will teach you how to eat the ingredients you harvest!

Learn the Edible Seaweeds of Coastal Cornwall and How to Cook them into Delicious Recipes. This course will see you learning about the surprisingly abundant varieties of seaweed along the Cornish coast, teaching about their health benefits, flavours, and utility. Each foraging walk comes with a cookery demonstration at the end, where you will be able to taste the ingredients picked! Meeting point is at the Institute in Kingsand, SE Cornwall

Hurdles are traditional fence panels that have been used for a variety of different functions over the years, from animal enclosures to walls of houses. This course will give you a chance to learn with countryside craftsman, Robbie Ryder. Aims: To learn the art of hurdle making, by making your own. This course covers: Introduction to tools and materials. Woodland management, including Hazel coppicing. Preparing zales (uprights) and base weave Introduction to different methods of splitting hazel.

Come and learn the traditional craft of skep-making on the beautiful Horsepool Apiary on the Antony Estate in SE Cornwall. A skep is a traditional straw or reed bee-hive, one traditionally made with local grown straw and rushes. Our expert skep-maker, Robbie, will talk you through the history of this beautiful traditional craft, while teaching you everything you need to know to begin making your own. You will be provided with enough straw and bindings to complete your own skep, and, if you don't complete it on the day, you...

The main attraction of the Cornish landscape is the pattern of small fields enclosed by hedge-banks, usually made of or faced with stone gathered locally. These hedges are our largest semi-natural wildlife habitat, providing a variety of conditions which elsewhere occur only in a wide range of different habitats. There is demand for new Cornish hedges. Building new, and repairing existing hedges is a skilled craft. If you have inherited or bought a house with an old garden or some acres of redundant farmland you may find that the hedges...

Using hand-carving techniques and deveoping whittling skills, our expert craftsman, Robbie, teaches you have to create tools and designs with only a log and a knife. This course will guide you through knife safety, how to understand and work with wood, and, ultimately, how to transform raw material into a thing of beauty. We supply you with all the tools you need to learn and whittle on the day, guiding you to create a basic (but nonetheless brilliant object) like a spoon, bear, or a toadstool. Then, once you've finished,...

To continue a foraging education during lockdown, the Family Foraging Kitchen team have created online wild food mentoring sessions! Each session is one-on-one with our foraging expert, Vix Hill-Ryder, held via Zoom and arranged to suit your schedule. Sessions can support those starting out, discussing fundamental foraging practices and wild food identification or, alternatively, they can be offered at a higher level, catering to already confident foragers who have more specific and detailed questions. While sessions work well as part of a long-term and ongoing learning schedule, we can also...